Police arrested 17 organizers and participants of the annual Aurat March in Islamabad on Sunday as activists gathered to mark International Women’s Day. The arrests...

ISLAMABAD - Just hours before a suicide bomber struck the Khadija Tul Kubra Shia mosque in Islamabad during Friday prayers, killing at least 31...

Last week, a trial court in Islamabad convicted human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha under Pakistan's highly controversial cybercrime law,...

This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship. Islamabad - Shafiullah Jan, special assistant to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) chief...

My daughter, a human rights lawyer, and her husband are currently on trial in Pakistan under cybercrime charges for exercising what should be a...

This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship. ISLAMABAD - Militants in Pakistan’s volatile Waziristan region have escalated attacks on...

This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship. Tirah Valley, Pakistan - After three months of fighting for her life,...

I write this as the daughter of a Baloch nationalist leader and Pakistani parliamentarian who recently survived assassination attempts. What we are going through...

Human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari writes about Baloch families — particularly women, children, and the elderly — who have been camped outside Islamabad’s National Press...

A major Pakistani rights watchdog, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), has issued a dire warning over widening human rights abuses in Balochistan,...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani real estate tycoon Malik Riaz warned Tuesday that his vast property enterprise, Bahria Town Limited, is nearing a complete shutdown. He attributed this...

LAHORE: Supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was removed from office in 2022 and has been imprisoned at Adiala Jail since August...

In Pakistan, calls for boycotts of international brands perceived to have ties to Israel, while seemingly intended as peaceful protest against the violence in...

Afghanistan's Supreme Court announced on Friday the public execution of four men, marking the largest number of executions in a single day since the...

ISLAMABAD: The chairperson of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), Dr. Mahrang Baloch, who was arrested last month during a protest in Quetta, wrote a...

ISLAMABAD: Upholding the conviction of a man charged with raping a 20-year-old woman, the Islamabad High Court judge Justice Babar Sattar outlined several principles...

LAHORE: Under pressure from Islamist extremist groups, police arrested 22 members of the Ahmadi minority community, including children, in the Sialkot district of Pakistan's...

Journalists across Pakistan are out on the streets protesting against The Prevention of Electronic Crimes (Amendment) Act (PECA) 2025 and petitions against it are...

This report is part of Dissent Today’s special series documenting violence and alleged irregularities during Pakistan’s 2024 general elections.  Balochistan, which is Pakistan's largest province,...

This report is part of Dissent Today's special series documenting violence and alleged irregularities during Pakistan's 2024 general elections.  When Mohsin Dawar narrowly escaped an...

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) voiced their concerns over the government of Pakistan's...

ISLAMABAD: The Prevention of Electronic Crimes (Amendment) bill passed by Pakistan's National Assembly has been criticized by human rights activists as an attack on...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A group of terrorists abducted four policemen after carrying out an attack on a police post in Umar Raghzai, South Waziristan. The assailants...

The restive town of Parachinar continues to face a lack of necessities and adequate humanitarian aid, as the Kurram Highway has remained blocked for...

Cholistan, a vast desert in Pakistan’s Punjab province, covers an area of 6.6 million acres and spans the districts of Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, and Rahim...

It is strange how the past and present mimic each other.  In the summer of 1909, in the midst of a naval arms race with...

On March 23, we launched a series of in-depth articles titled “Is There A Way Forward For Pakistan?” with contributions from distinguished writers including...

A 12-year-old girl was raped in a shelter home in Korangi, Karachi, allegedly by the son of the woman running the shelter home. According to...

A Hindu teacher has been languishing in Sindh jail for over 3 years after he was arrested in 2019 and convicted of committing blasphemy...